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 | April is Foot Health Awareness month, so we're taking a look at feet this week. Feet provide the grounding points in yoga's standing poses and help create safe alignment in many other poses. As such, the positioning of the feet is super important. After talking about how to handle painful foot cramps and cold feet, we'll examine a few poses with tricky foot positions. |
| Ouch! Foot Cramps in Yoga
Advice columnist Aunt Yoga on what to do when foot cramps strike during yoga.
| Yoga Toesox: Yea or Nay?
Do you need special socks for yoga? Did I mention they are toe socks?
| Wheel Pose - Urdhva Dhanurasana
In yoga, the feet should be kept parallel during backbends like wheel and bridge to protect your knees. There is often a tendency to turn your toes out. Fight it.
| Pose of the Week: Half Lord of the Fishes Pose
 Here's my ardha matsyendrasana pet peeve: the front foot. It's important to keep it really flat on the floor with the big toe pressing down because this is the anchor point for the whole twist. Let that foot go all loosey goosey and you've lost the integrity of the pose. You have been warned!
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